Dazed Netizen

I have been living on the edge of the Internet for over a month now and I still cannot say that I can make heads or tails of this beast. Sure, it is easy to be glib and say that the net is nothing more than a melting pot of man's convoluted desires mixed with a dash of hope, a pinch of skepticism, a teeny-tiny bit of idealistic yearning, a large portion of Tech and Science, a whole lot of greed multiplied by cynicism, an endless stream of wannabes, suckers and losers of all shapes and colors and an endless supply of wonder and mesmerized attention.

There is just no way that I can characterize this most wondrous of inventions. Well, sex is one of Nature's greatest inventions and it is responsible for the spiral growth of human development where the best of genetic materials combine to create hte next generation of improved beings. In a way, the Internet has surpassed nature in the diversity of it's creations. the colors and shapes and capabiities of its progeny is just amazing to behold and causes one to sit up and ponder its very nature.

These past two weeks has got my riveted attention focused on the problem of promotion. Granting that I have not exactly written something great and it has no reason to be wanting to be read, the fact of the matter is, the stuff that is written has nothing with the problem of finding its readers. Not everyone can read James Joyce or Friedrich Nietzsche or even F. Scott Fitzgerald. Of the six billion souls on this planet, there must be a couple of million whose psyches would resonate to the thoughts that I am trying to bring across.

Setting aside quality, the problem still remains. Of the six hundred million pairs of eyes that are glued to the Internet screen everyday, how many can one hope to catch? How is it done? The experts say "let the search engines bring you to your readers". This is a great statement which means absolutely nothing to a nonentity like me and I suspect that I might be in the majority here. There must be more people who are dazed and confused like me; adding to our confusion and frustration are the legions of Gurus and Experts who hawk their wares at aver corner, every thoroughfare, every highway. They dominate the search results and they want to help you belike them; every one of them want to be your coach and bring you to some underground lair where they exercise their magic and rid you of your innocence (or is it ignorance?). This is all very well and good and confusing because there are too many of them and only one of me. Which messiah am I going to follow? Which voice will sound more melliferous than the others?

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How do I promote my blog

This is probably the most common problem encountered by any would-be publisher in the net. I like the sound of that: publisher.I have seen it a few times and I thought maybe they meant someone else but hey, there is only me here so I guess they must mean me. So I am a publisher now? I started out just wanting to be a writer and here I am being addressed as publisher. This is way cool. Thinking about it, I do believe it is accurate to call me a publisher since putting your words, thoughts, ideas on to some medium, in this case the Internet, really does make one a publisher. Well, as a publisher one has the added chore of promoting or advertising. This is a big word: Blog Promotion or Blog Advertising. How does one go about it? The obvious choices are to do it by yourself and try to reach your circle of friends. This might be the logical choice but is it an intelligent choice? Will it really promote my blog? The friends that I know don't even surf the net regularly so that is a dead-end option right there.

There is no magic bullet, I decided and was all set to give up my dreams of having my words published but wait, maybe there is a magic bulletr and I just don't know about it. The next step is to further my education on this business of Internet Publishing and learn the basics, the nitty-gtitty of the thing. It is slow going. There are so many autorities and so many ideas I do not know which one is true and which one is hype. For one thing I have to start learning the terms, expand my vocabulary and find new meanings to old terms or words that seem to take on a whole new meaning the way they are used in the Internet.

I keep stumbling acros the term SEO. Search Engine Optimization. This is a big word and one that I confess I hardly know anything about. This is great! Something new to bite on.

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